Last Updated on 12 June 2024

The following list is the Official Definitive List of the 100 best Fourth of July movies of all time.

I averaged 25 different ranked lists of “Best Independence Day (U.S.) movies of all time” to get this definitive compilation. Most were either patriotic movies or movies that were deemed appropriate to watch on the 4th of July. See my Methodology page for the research process that was used, including all 25 lists that were averaged. Below is a checklist you’re welcome to print, followed by the ranked list with links to IMDb.

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  1. Independence Day (1996)
  2. Jaws (1975)
  3. Top Gun (1986)
  4. Lincoln (2012)
  5. Hamilton (2020)
  6. The Sandlot (1993)
  7. Top Gun: Maverick (2022)
  8. National Treasure (2004)
  9. Born on the Fourth of July (1989)
  10. Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)
  11. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
  12. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
  13. Glory (1989)
  14. Harriet (2019)
  15. Hidden Figures (2016)
  16. The Patriot (2000)
  17. 1776 (1972)
  18. Forrest Gump (1994)
  19. Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
  20. A League of Their Own (1992)
  21. Apollo 13 (1995)
  22. Air Force One (1997)
  23. Zero Dark Thirty (2012)
  24. Selma (2014)
  25. Team America: World Police (2004)
  26. The American President (1995)
  27. Patton (1970)
  28. I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)
  29. Miracle (2004)
  30. Red Dawn (1984)
  31. An American Tail (1986)
  32. All the President’s Men (1976)
  33. The Right Stuff (1983)
  34. War Horse (2011)
  35. Rocky IV (1985)
  36. American Graffiti (1973)
  37. The Music Man (1962)
  38. American Sniper (2014)
  39. Gettysburg (1993)
  40. Live Free or Die Hard (2007)
  41. Rocky (1976)
  42. Remember the Titans (2000)
  43. Girls Trip (2017)
  44. Platoon (1986)
  45. Devotion (2022)
  46. Brokeback Mountain (2005)
  47. The Deer Hunter (1978)
  48. Young Mr. Lincoln (1939)
  49. Pearl Harbor (2001)
  50. Jackie (2016)
  51. Argo (2012)
  52. Independence Day: Resurgence (2016)
  53. Vice (2018)
  54. Cheaper By the Dozen 2 (2005)
  55. About My Father (2023)
  56. Coming to America (1988)
  57. Full Metal Jacket (1987)
  58. Inglourious Basterds (2009)
  59. Night at the Museum: Battle at the Smithsonian (2009)
  60. The Tuskegee Airmen (1995)
  61. Cape Fear (1991)
  62. On the Basis of Sex (2018)
  63. 13th (2016)
  64. First Man (2018)
  65. Moonrise Kingdom (2012)
  66. Purple Hearts (2022)
  67. Da 5 Bloods (2020)
  68. Black Hawk Down (2001)
  69. 1917 (2019)
  70. Holiday Inn (1942)
  71. Sergeant York (1941)
  72. The Pacific (2010)
  73. Stripes (1981)
  74. Armageddon (1998)
  75. Do the Right Thing (1989)
  76. From Here to Eternity (1953)
  77. Us (2019)
  78. All Quiet on the Western Front (2022)
  79. Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
  80. Flight of the Navigator (1986)
  81. John Adams (2008)
  82. Luce (2019)
  83. United 93 (2006)
  84. A Few Good Men (1992)
  85. Moscow on the Hudson (1984)
  86. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
  87. Click (2006)
  88. Dark Skies (2013)
  89. The Harder They Fall (2021)
  90. Blown Away (1994)
  91. Rudolph and Frosty’s Christmas in July (1979)
  92. The Cabin in the Woods (2011)
  93. Grown Ups (2010)
  94. Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
  95. The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard (2009)
  96. Drop Zone (1994)
  97. Wonder Woman 1984 (2020)
  98. Jonah Hex (2010)
  99. Elvis & Nixon (2016)
  100. The Monuments Men (2014)

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